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‘To Boldly Go’ premiered at Tamworth Odeon on Friday 17th June at 10.45am and it was a huge success! ‘To Boldly Go’ is a film which aims to help other young people with learning difficulties have the confidence to use public transport on their own – have a look at our blog post about the project…

Mr Tim Pratt, Head of Drama at Walsall Academy, is on a mission to engage his students with the history of their local area – Bloxwich – by making a film about it. Mr Pratt approached Catcher Media about his idea, having worked with us before on a project about sustainable travel for young people …

Catcher Media has been working on an inspirational project: a promotional film about independent travel for young people with learning difficulties. Staffordshire Council were inspired by a project we had undertaken with Walsall College commissioned by Centro, Access all Areas. They decided that their county could benefit from it’s own locally based film and resources.…

by Louie Ablett, Work Experience, 12th February 2016 Monday My starting day in a lovely week at the company, working alongside Julia and Rick Goldsmith, and associate Therese. The day began with an early bus, and arriving at the dwelling-come-offices of the Goldsmiths in time to help them load up the wagon with framed…

A great day hosted at Wellington Primary training eight schools to make there own films based on the BBC’s Ten Pieces scheme . Here’s a fab very short video made on the day from Colwall pupils demonstrating shot types – filmed and edited on an ipad. Project in partnership with Herefordshire Councils Learning and Achievement…

PV Training Feedback: Grace Albert (from Guyana) wrote in her blog: “It was a certainly a tremendous three days with our two Participatory Video facilitators; Rick Goldsmith of Catcher Media Social and Chris High from the Open University. We did not only focus on the use of advanced equipment like the camera, tripod, monopods and…

We are delighted to announce a new three-day training course for anyone wanting to learn about using digital media techniques to work with groups in community or organisational settings. The course is facilitated by experienced trainers and practitioners, Rick and Julia Goldsmith (Catcher Media Social) and Chris High (Open University) and will cover different aspects…

We also recorded this video for the Friends of Castle Green in 2014. The Summer Fayre included a day-long celebration of the centenary of World War One with drama, music, poetry, food, archive photos and history societies all highlighting the local significance of events from the war years.

We are delighted to be building on our long standing relationship with Dr Chris High and the Open University. This new project involves piloting the use of participatory video (PV) with teachers who have recently graduated from an innovative teacher preparation programme in Malawi to create a generation of highly skilled educators who are trained…

This video is a memento of the carnival in May 2015 This video was from last year: May 2014. We hope that it may help to encourage others to support the event next year. Here’s to the carnival in 2015! Check out their facebook page to see what’s happening and to get involved. We have…

At the end of January 2015 Rick Goldsmith and Chris High trained a group of activists from Project Cobra in Guyana, in Advanced PV and Film-making skills. Four Project COBRA staff from the North Rupununi District Development Board (NRDDB) and Iwokrama underwent three days of training at Royal Holloway University of London.The aim of the…

PARTICIPATORY VIDEO PV-NET Statement on Participatory Video in Research Having met at Walton Hall, The Open University, Milton Keynes, February 2008 To consider the relationship between participatory video and social research, where participatory video is a collaborative approach to working with a group or community in shaping and creating their own film, in order to…